On June 7, 2015, Tony Baechler wrote: > 2. Upgrade to nano-tiny 2.4.1 and hope I don't need the fully > featured version of Nano. Just so you know what you'd be missing, nano-tiny lacks the following: - the mini file-browser when writing files - the help function - the justify/unjustify functions - mouse functionality - setting the operating directory - tab completion - long-line wrapping - marking of code and cutting to the end of line - the function-toggles for those above options If you already know your way around nano, the lack of help shouldn't be much of an issue. The lack of tab-completion, long-line wrapping or marking/cutting seem like the make-or-break features if you use them. > 3. Ditch Nano entirely. I'm leaning more and more toward the > later. Does anyone here have any suggestions? Please don't > suggest vi, emacs and clones. I'm not interested in either one of > those and there are lots of clones of both if I want to go that > route. I'm a big advocate of vi/vim since it's what I use and it's everywhere (I don't have to install it). Others speak highly of emacs, but it sounds like you've considered both and don't want to go down either road. There are other editors out there though. I've recently seen buzz about Slap https://github.com/slap-editor/slap which touts itself as "like Sublime Text, but in a terminal window". I haven't had cause to try it, but it sounds promising to those who don't care for the complexities of vi/vim or emacs. There's also "ne" (which reading later in the thread, you've tried), "joe", "jed", "the", "lpe", and "jupp" which come to mind. I'd also be remiss if I didn't mention ed, ex, or edbrowse which might play better with a screen-reader or braille output. But they're a lot more obscure as editors go. I have a soft spot for ed & ex, so would be glad to answer questions you have there. I haven't used edbrowse, but understand it's similar to ed only with more functionality. Also, if you broaden your options to GUI editors, others might be able to speak to accessibility there. -tim _______________________________________________ Blinux-list mailing list Blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list